It's going to be a rough month for what was once one of the most successful smartphone companies in the world. Between all the Android and iOS violence, it's easy to forget there's this Canadian company which was still growing its userbase every month. However, it's expected the company will lose subscribers for the very first time.

An article from December last year, suggesting you use Dell phones running Android 2.2? Well, have fun with that.

Specifications are constantly updated. Obviously you know nothing of how government and military work with regards to technology. They are slow to implement and use 'outdated' tech by current pop standards.

I think the truth is more that governments have trouble peeking in an iPhone than an Android one. Your own users are the biggest security risks and you don't want them to use devices you can't get access to.

Please don't kid yourself that iPhones are the height of security. Your second sentence is one important aspect of a 'secure' phone for corporate or government use.

You claim "They are allowed modified Android phones", while in reality it is only one model phone, an obscure Dell phone. It is only allowed after it received its modification. This says nothing about iPhone security.

Again, one illustrative article but not where it stands almost a year later. I won't do the research for you on this one. Get out of your bubble and do it yourself, if you are truly interested.

They took an Android phone because it's easy to modify and add their own backdoors to it. So if you're fond of privacy and security never ever use a phone given to you by a government agency.

Again, seriously? If you work for a government agency, you have no choice. Period. That is different than private phone security, but I think you know that, right?

So in summary:
* You say you posted an outdated article, although Wikipedia still claims the Dell Venue is the only allowed phone.

Wikipedia, that bastion of peer-reviewed scholarly research?

* What you claim and what the government does doesn't say anything about iPhone (or any other phone, including Android ones) security.

Security is one of the selling points of RIM Blackberries. Government agencies know a hell of a lot more about 'security' than you.

* Government issued phones don't offer the user any personal security or privacy advantages, only disadvantages.

Irrelevant. This point was already dismissed by another user.

I conclude it was another piece of anti-Apple FUD once again based on very dodgy logic and strange assumptions.

Again, though this apparently has to be repeated ad nauseum with regards to anything 'negative' concerning Apple these days, I have used Apple products since the 1970's. In the last ten years, things have dramatically changed with them both corporately and with those who pyschologically 'love' them. Deal with it.

So in summary:
* You say you posted an outdated article, although Wikipedia still claims the Dell Venue is the only allowed phone.

For all we know, Wikipedia was probably written based off that article.

* Government issued phones don't offer the user any personal security or privacy advantages, only disadvantages.

You're getting carried away with yourself now. You didn't even know about the Dell phones until today, much less know details about their security. So to make the claims you're now, you'd have to based them on 100% pure bias and paranoia.

I conclude it was another piece of anti-Apple FUD once again based on very dodgy logic and strange assumptions.

anti-apple or not. You can't then take an even more extreme view point with completely made up facts about a handset you've never seen and its intentions to spy on you to your employers. That's taking FUD to a whole new level!